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1952 Navy Foam Fire Fighting Jeep Prototype

October 10, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Fire/Police/Industry Vehicles, videos • TAGS: . This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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UPDATE: Thanks to Ted, below I’ve added an article and more images from a March 1953 Popular Science article about the little fire fighting jeep, also known as the “Little Squirt”.

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This video from the National Archives Catalog shows a special-purpose fire fighting jeep the Navy was testing. The video is divided into two parts. The first part shows the jeep fighting a fire. The second part shows the jeep from various angles. I’ve also included some images from the video below. (If the video is slow or doesn’t work, go here to download the video).


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More on The New Mexico Jeep Derbys

October 9, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Magazine, Racing, videos • TAGS: , . This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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The February 1963 issue of Popular Mechanics included an article about the New Mexico Jeep Derby held annually in Truth or Consquences, New Mexico. It’s a great article about the early days of jeep racing. I’ve also included a video of one Derby race, but the quality is poor. Still, in some clips, you can see just how much the co-pilot shifts his body around the jeep.

View Popular Mechanics February 1963 at Google Books

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Terminal Apex video of Modified MB

August 5, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, videos This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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I can’t remember who shared this video (my apologies), but it’s nicely produced one. I’m might get a little geeky and quibble with some of the history as presented, but overall it’s a video about a guy who loves his jeep.

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Brazilian Rural Wagon Video

July 5, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, videos • TAGS: . This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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This Brazilian tutorial about the Willys Rural Wagon and Truck was spotted by Carl. Portuguese speakers might find it interesting.

I hadn’t noticed it before, but some of the Rural wagons and Jeepsters have a “Parkette”-looking fiberglass stripe along the sides. Maybe that’s where Paul Parker got the idea?

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Video of Steven Ward & His MB Readying for France

June 21, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, videos This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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UPDATE: (if the video below is incorrect, here’s the original story with video)

This news video shares the story of Steven Ward and his MB getting ready for the trip to France. There were a quite a few jeep community folks who were there, including Ron Fitzgerald and Scott Schiller, both of whom did a variety of videos on Facebook like this one.

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